Valerie Lengard
 - Product Manager, CAMO Process AS

Valérie Lengard has an MSc. in Food Science, Sensometrics and Chemometrics from ENITIAA (Nantes, France). As a consultant she typically participates in product development and process optimisation projects where multivariate analysis and experimental design are used as basic tools. As a course leader she has trained over 300 scientists and engineers to the use of chemometrics methods in research and industry applications. Valérie joined CAMO in 1998 and is currently Product Manager for The Unscrambler with CAMO Process AS, Oslo, Norway.

Dr. Diane F. Malley
 - President, PDK Projects, Inc., www.pdkprojects.com

Diane received her BSc and MSc Degrees in Zoology from the University of British Columbia and in 1972 earned a PhD degree in Zoology from the University of Michigan. She engaged in teaching and research at a developing university in Penang, Malaysia from 1973 to 1975, then took a Visiting Professor position at the University of Victoria from 1975 to 1976. Diane spent the following 21 years as a Research Scientist at the Freshwater Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada where she worked in freshwater science. She has held several appointments as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Manitoba. In 1990, she was introduced to near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and utilized it in her research with Fisheries. Taking early retirement in 1997, Diane formed a family-based company, PDK Projects, Inc., that offers NIRS applications research, consulting, and education in the environmental and agricultural fields. Company personnel have utilized The Unscrambler for applications ranging from analysis of grains, flour, compost, animal manures, soils, and sediments, and published on many of these applications.

Prof. Waltraud Kessler
- Faculty of Applied chemistry, FH Reutlingen

Prof. Waltraud Kessler is a trained physicist who worked several years in industry programming control systems with the emphasis on multivariate data analysis. Several years work at the Institut fuer Angewandte Forschung at Reutlingen Univerity, Germany, gave her the opportunity to plan and conduct research work within European Projects. Mrs. Kessler specialized on statistical experiment planning and design and advanced techniques in multivariate data analysis and connectionist networks (neural nets) together with process control by optical spectroscopy. The results have been published in several scientific publications and industrial patents.

She started teaching multivariate data analyses and experimental design in the early nineties in the chemistry department of Reutlingen University (Hochschule Reutlingen). In 2002 she was awarded Honorarprofessor for her engagement in lecturing at Reutlingen University. Furthermore the LARS-prize for excellent scripts was awarded to her by the commision of Hochschuldidaktik an Fachhochschulen in Baden-Württemberg. Her current lectures are on multivariate data analysis and experimental design in the master course program Bio- and Processanalysis.

Prof. Kessler holds multivariate analysis and experimental design courses for CAMO in the German language.

Dominique Guyot
- Private Consultant, Do.Mi.Sol

Dominique Guyot, educated in statistics, Economics and Biomathematics (ENSAE and Universite de Paris, france), has 15 years of experience in the field of chemometrics. She gained industrial experience from her work in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries. Dominique Guyot has been working as a Senior Consultant for Camo from 1995 till 2000 and was particularly involved in food applications. Since then she is holding public and in-house courses for Camo in French, English and Norwegian.

Klaas Faber
- Private consultant, Chemometry Consultancy, www.chemometry.com

Klaas Faber, by training an analytical chemist, received a Ph.D. from the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry at Nijmegen University in 1994. His primary interest lies in determining the uncertainty in multivariate model results, e.g. a prediction obtained from a near-infrared calibration. Until 1999, research has been mainly theoretical in nature. With the turn of the millennium, however, focus changed to making theory useful in practice. This is currently achieved in close collaboration with a large number of researchers in academia. After having been employed for several years as a statistician in forensic and food science, Klaas started as a private consultant in January 2003. His consultancy aims on commercializing newly developed methodology so that end-users can be more confident about their models.

Sylvie Roussel
- President, AGROMETRIX consulting company, www.agrometrix.com

Sylvie Roussel is an agricultural engineer and received a Ph.D. in chemometrics from Cemagref-AGRO.M in France in 1998, dealing with multisensor fusion techniques (spectrometers and electronic noses) applied to agricultural issues. She then focused her research studies on multivariate calibration models for large near-infrared databases at the Grain Quality Laboratory of Iowa State University (Ames, IA, USA). Back in France to fund her consulting company in chemometrics, she still cooperates with academia, for exemple on model robustness research, and teaches classes in chemometrics - data processing and experimental designs.

Her courses are held in French.